Publishing Project
A New Way to get your Children's/MidDLE gRADE/Young Adult book Published
Are you an author for readers under the age of 18?
Are you having trouble publishing a book for young readers?
Well this publishing project might just be for you.
Are you having trouble publishing a book for young readers?
Well this publishing project might just be for you.
Enjoy this trailer for the book
Follow this link to buy a copy
I wrote a book ten years ago called Half Human (see a brief blurb below). For the last decade I have tried to find a home for this book to no avail. I know it is a good story, the few who have read it tell me so, so I don't want to give up on it.
So I thought about it and realized there was a way to market my book and garner more interest in the story, which I will share with you.
It does however require a sacrifice, but one that might build a fan base for your book and connections to a wider audience.
This also mean self-publishing the book.
This is what you do.
1. Ask yourself do you have a connection to a school that teaches the age range your book is aimed at?
2. If your answer is yes (presumably through a teacher you know) get in touch and offer to visit the school to talk about reading and writing as well as offer them your book.
3. Your book will essentially become the schools book, forever connected to that school and in some sense owned by that school.
4. Tell this school you will send a chapter at a time (or the whole book if it's not a chapter book) to the school and if students want to read it, edit and offer story telling ideas, you agree to make those changes to your book.
5. Over time your book will be changed by the student's input and hopefully be improved and adapted to your chosen market.
6. Self Publish the book as a proper paperback. You then put on the cover the students names so they become co-authors.
7. By involving children who are your target market you will produce a small base of readers. If these readers are part of a school, they have links to potentially hundreds of other potential readers.
8. Gather reviews, sell the book at the school.
The school you work with will be keen to have their students reading your work, learning to comprehend it and picking out your mistakes and correcting them. This improves their reading and comprehension skills. You should also suggest books like your book to read, encouraging students to become better readers and then better writers themselves.
This entire process creates for your book a fan base who will now be keen to write their own stories. This may mean giving income and credit to this school, but if it means your book finally gets off the ground, it seems well worth it. I would suggest that you give the book to the school as an entity, giving the school a portion of the income and credit, and let them distribute it as they see fit.
Right now I am trying this idea out in a school. The Year 7 and 8s are keen to get involved and the book is already being improved.
If you have a story you love, then this might be the way to finally get it off the ground.
Here's a video explaining the project
(With Minecraft playing in the background)
Half Human
Ryan lives a pleasant life, he's popular and content. However his life is shattered when it is revealed to him that he is Half Human/Half Alien, a child of two worlds. His changing biology necessitates his journey to his Father's homeworld where he will live with his alien people. This new society is very different to earth and recovering from a recent civil war. Ryan must learn to find his place in this new society. Not only must he deal with his family, whose honour is tarnished by his mere existence, but a faction of Ontarian society who need to use him to restart the civil war. This series incorporates epic world building as Planet Ontaria requires unfamiliar geography, animals and government. Also it includes intrigue, espionage and politics as Ryan has to navigate a new society filled with factions fighting for their own corner of planet Ontaria. |